Understanding Your Stress Response
When you feel stressed, all-be-it a real threat or thought of facing a threat, your body experiences a collection of changes known as your stress response. Chronic activation of your survival mechanism can impair your health both physically and mentally causing adverse long term damage such as anxiety, depression, and addiction.
Many people are unable to find a way to put the brakes on stress, however, it’s important to find a collection of strategies that can help reverse the body’s stress response and bring it back to its natural state. Research suggests that countering this stress response with relaxation can prevent long term health damage.
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Self-Criticism and Recognising Your Strengths
Your private inner dialogue can either be a powerful stepping stone or a major obstacle on your way to reaching goals. Having negative predictions like, "I am going to mess this up", "I can't do this" will rob you of your mental strength and ability to succeed.
If you have a harsh inner critic you are not alone and you do not have to be a victim of your own verbal abuse. In this course learn a range of exercises to change the way you think and talk to yourself. Silence the toxic self-criticism for good and fuel your efforts to reach your goals.
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Talking About Mental Health
Openly discussing mental health in society helps break down the stigma surrounding mental illness while also reminding us that help is available and we're not struggling alone. Talking about mental health can encourage those having thoughts of suicide or dealing with severe mental illness to reach out to others for help.
Talking about mental health can feel really daunting even for those who want to show their support and help. The most important thing you can do is to get the conversation going, and if you’re not sure what to say this course will give you all the tips and techniques you need to have a healthy conversation.
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Single-Tasking for Success
Most of us know it’s better to focus on one thing at a time but still end up doing multiple things at once. When we try to multitask, we end up ruining our productivity, becoming more stressed, and ultimately less happy. We get more done when we slow down.
Single-tasking is the strategy to keep focussed on a single task to be performed at a time. In this course, we will cover the most common culprits that will cause you to multi-task, how to harness the power of single-tasking and the benefits to your wellbeing this will promote.
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The Importance of Prioritising Your Sleep
For optimum mental wellness, you need at least 7-9 hours of sleep. Sleep directly affects your mental and physical health and how well you feel during the day. Sleep impacts your productivity, emotional balance, brain and heart health, immune function, and even weight. No other activity delivers so many benefits with so little effort!
If you make plenty of time for sleep but still have trouble getting up in the morning or staying alert, you may not be getting enough quality sleep. If you’re looking to resolve a specific sleep problem, or want to feel more productive and emotionally balanced, experiment with this Prioritising Your Sleep course and see what works best for you.
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Recognising and Avoiding Negative Thinking Traps
Negativity is hard to escape these days. Unfortunately, we’re more likely to focus our attention on the bad around us rather than the good. Thanks to our ancestors we're just hard-wired that way. These days, this can create a major barrier to our well-being.
One of the most important things to know is that you can control your own thoughts. Challenges are inevitable, it's a part of life, so although we can’t always control what is going to happen, we can control our how we respond to them.
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Identifying and Achieving Goals
The act of identifying your own values, goals and objectives is reflective. Setting goals gives you an idea to work towards, and reviewing your progress reflectively can help you: optimise your time, energy and performance.
By identifying and setting goals, you give yourself the direction to improve your performance. Once you start achieving goals your self-confidence will increase which will give you the positive attitude to move forward with a more stable sense of well-being.
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Parenting While Working Remotely
If the thought of working from home with your child seems frightening, you aren't alone. Kids demand around-the-clock attention—and parenting while juggling conference calls, never-ending emails, and tight deadlines is no joke. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has made this situation a reality for many parents nationwide.
Our experts have learned not only from experience but have carried out extensive research on the best ways to navigate life at the intersection of working at home and parenting. This course will provide you with helpful tips for staying productive while working from home, keeping motivated and how to juggle parenting in the mix.
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Saying "No" Won't Get You Into Trouble
None of us wants to be the one who’s always saying no and letting people down. But sometimes, for our own mental health and wellbeing, we need to learn how to set healthy boundaries, manage our workloads, and discover how to say no without burning bridges and causing friction.
Saying yes to another project or task means you’re effectively saying no to the tasks you already need to complete. Saying no will provide you with the time and energy to focus on the work that will move your career forward. In this course, you will learn the parameters to help you when you’re put on the spot and need to say 'No'.
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Understanding Common Mental Health Issues
Mental health affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
Arming yourself with an understanding of mental health not only helps you to identify your own symptoms but others too so you can support a person who is struggling and be safe in the knowledge that you would be supported in return.
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Dealing with Long Commuter Journeys
The Office for National Statistics found that each minute added to a commute affects anxiety, happiness and general wellbeing. Your morning commute sets the tone for the day ahead, as well as impacting on how your evening will be spent.
Thankfully, commuting doesn't need to be a chore. In this course, our expert wellbeing trainer will give you techniques and a new plan of action for your daily commute to ease the stress and burden it can pose on your day to day life.
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Returning to Work After Grief
Struggling with grief at work can be challenging for both the individual and co-workers. While they may have undoubtedly found it difficult to avoid thoughts about their loved one, communicating can be critical at this time to help everyone to better understand what they're dealing with, and dispel any confusion about their performance.
It is as important for both the individual and co-workers to be aware of what support will be needed and how to practically provide that support. In this course, our expert trainer will give you the necessary preparations to consider before the return to work and what measures can be put in place for a comfortable and easy transition.
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Staying Calm in Stressful Situations
Stress is a normal part of modern life, but if you're often faced with stressful situations and feel panicked or overwhelmed trying to deal with them, you may benefit from learning some coping strategies that can help you to stay calm. Stress is more likely to result in positive outcomes if you see it as a challenge you can strive to overcome.
You can’t control what life will throw at you next, but you can learn to cope with pressurised situations and deal with stress in a healthy way. This course will give you the toll to practise some of these strategies the next time you feel under pressure to help you to feel calm and able to deal with any situation.
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Workload Management
Do you ever start the day with intentions to get x, y, z but quickly find yourself distracted and less focused? From making lists to focusing on one task, taking breaks and having tips to prioritise changing workloads can help make a less stressed and happier in the workplace.
Creating a good workload management strategy helps you to feel that workload is balanced. Efficiently distributing and managing tasks across your week maximises your performance and helps to melt away chaos, leaving you and your co-workers feeling satisfied at the end of each day rather than overwhelmed.
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Tailored Training for Your Team
We provide professional training programs that are developed by industry, for industry. Our range of programs can be delivered in a way that suits the needs of your business to offer your employees learning that is accessible and flexible.
We add value to your business by providing specialised, flexible and scalable training that meets your training needs. As your workforce grows and evolves, our globally certified and industry-validated learning solutions can assess, train and qualify your employees. For more information on how we can help please visit the in-house training page.
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